Christmas music before Labor Day

*rimshot*

 

1. I think that was my first use of charmion.

B. When you say "unreadable," what do you mean? It looks just fine in Safari. Is it not right on another OS?

 

1. Not really directed at you as much as some others on the board who wore it out.

B. I'm reading it in Firefox and each paragraph gets progressively narrower until there's basically like one word in each line midway through the page. Maybe I should try I.E.

 

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll look into it.

 

Let me get this straight: You willingly listened to the Rick Dees show every week AND 64 spins of "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions" in one day?

Damn dude. You're like the Jack Bauer of music or something: Tortured incessantly yet never killed.

Let me note that I like Queen. But by God, I can't reach for the dial fast enough when those songs are played. I seriously think they're the most overplayed songs ever.

 

How would you like to be the DJ for said Christmas radio station?

 

Unless it's a mom-and-pop, it's probably no sweat.

A lot of corporations use "voice tracking" technology where the DJ reads the song intros and various liners into a computer, and the computer puts in the snippets between songs. A DJ can do a 4-hour shift in about 45 minutes (and often does it for multiple stations across the country.)

That is why it's damned hard to get a radio gig today. Fuckin' Clear Channel.

 

Back to the topic at hand — I agree that this Christmas thing is getting waaaayyy out of hand. We're just under 4 months out — it's kind of like selling bottle rockets in March. And we can't kill a Charlie Brown Christmas thread on this board, Charlie Brown.

The way it's moving, Congress should end all pretense and move Thanksgiving to mid-October to extend the "official" shopping season.

When's the Canadian Thanksgiving (if there is such a critter)?

 

You're a sweet guy, Mod.

 

You think that's bad? I PT at Cracker Barrel, and we got some Halloween crap to sell in late July. My first reaction was "thank God it's not Christmas stuff," to which one of the managers said "that's on the next truck." I thought he was joking.

August 2. High temperature 102, hottest day of the year. I walk in the store to pick up my check and look at my schedule for the next week ... and see a fully-trimmed Christmas tree in the center of the store with baskets of Christmas crap on sale. Fuck me dead right now.